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VOL.3 ISSUE: 10, NOVEMBER 2015 Editor SUDHAKARAN

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ociety sans police is nothing but anarchy. The police personnel who keep vigil round the clock to ensure good nights’ sleep and fearless life for all, unfortunately, never get their due respect from the very people whom they protect. It is the sad state of affairs of police in world’s largest democracy.

While people are vying with each other in blaming police for reasons they even do not know, they conveniently forget the sacrifices the police personnel make. Hapless guardians of law cannot enjoy their personal lives, they do not get time to spend time with family members and they even fall to bullets and grenades in the line of duty.

It is sad that the government has failed to device a mechanism to make people aware of the significance of police. Unless proactive measures are taken to create awareness, police will be largely disrespected and disregarded by the general public.

It would be appropriate if the authorities take steps to conduct special seminars on the importance of police in educational institutions every year on October 21, the Police Commemoration Day, where the local inspector or a designated officer should deliver lectures, focusing on the hard work of the police in keeping the law and order and providing sage living conditions to the people.

These kinds of activities will help inculcate the significance of police among children at an early stage which will eventually get them their due share of respect.

There is a lot needs to be done. Unless the mindset of the public is changed, the protectors of society will remain a subject of ridicule for insensitive public.

We, The News team, dedicate this issue, for all the police personnel who sacrificed their lives for the safety of the society. We thank one and all who have made this supplement a success.

Editor : Sudhakaran

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FOUR COPS LAY DOWN THEIR LIVES FIGHTING TERRORISTS I NDEX

Rich tributes paid to police martyrs................................7 Four cops lay down their lives fighting terrorists ................8 Sacrifices for better tomorrow ....................................10 All for their welfare .................................................20 The situation specialists ............................................23 Trafficcops, real heroes .............................................24 War without Honour .................................................26 Greyhounds: The elite commando Force .........................29 BSF pays rich tributes to police martyrs..........................35 Challenges of internal security ....................................36 Police and safety .....................................................40 Winning people’s trust ..............................................43 Bandicoots ............................................................46 NTPC thermal project for Telangana gains pace ................47 Modi lays foundation stone for AP’s capital city ................48 BHEL pays dividend of ` 284 cr ....................................50 Krishnapatnam Port bestowed with Golden Peacock Award...55 Science News .........................................................58 Spiritual News ........................................................60 Ex-servicemen seek OROP notification by Diwali ...............62

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Rich tributes paid to police martyrs

KCR announces sops to police personnel

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olice personnel make several sacrifices in the line of duty. We shall always remain grateful to them for their dedication towards their duty, said Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao. On the occasion of Police Commemoration Day, he paid rich tributes to the police personnel who lost their lives while on duty. Addressing the gathering at Shivkumar Lal Police Stadium at Goshamahal, he showered sops on the police personnel.

He announced 10 percent of flats to be built by the government in double-bedroom scheme for the police and free land sites for the officials above the rank of sub inspector in their own districts. These sites would also be exempted from the land registration fee, he said.

The Chief Minister further announced pollution allowance for traffic police and hiked uniform allowances from Rs 3,500 to 7,500. Further, the government has decided to give them special

allowance which will be 30 percent of the basic salary. Speaking on the occasion, home minister Nayani Narasimha Reddy, said “It is unfortunate to see that several police personnel are losing their lives while performing their duties.

Their job has become more challenging with the increasing crimes. This year, 438 policemen died in the line of duty across the country. Four of them are from Telangana. The minister said that families of these policemen have been provided financial assistance and one of their family members was also given job in government departments.

DGP Anurag Sharma, Hyderabad police commissioner M Mahender Reddy and other senior officials, laid wreaths at the memorial and paid tributes to those police personnel who lost their lives on duty. Earlier, governor ESL Narasimhan also visited the memorial and paid tributes to the police martyrs.

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FOUR COPS LAY DOWN THEIR LIVES FIGHTING TERRORISTS Four policemen laid their lives in the first week of april 2015 while fighting agents of terror in nalgonda district of andhra Pradesh. it was around 2 a.m. on april 2, 2015. a team headed by inspector mogilaiah of suryapet police was carrying out the vehicle checking at suryapet Bus statnd. the police team found two persons suspicious and asked them to get down.

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ven as the duo was being questioned, they pulled out firearms concealed in their clothes and opened fire at the police. Before they could understand what was happening, bullets hit the four member police team – killing constable Lingaiah and Home Guard Mahesh on the spot – while Inspector Mogilaiah and another Home Guard Kishore suffered bullet wounds.

Everybody around was shocked and before anyone could react the duo ran away while continuing firing. The assailants also snatched 9mm carbine gun from the police while fleeing. Senior officials rushed to the spot and took stock of the situation. Meanwhile, police in Nalgonda district and neighboring districts of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh went on high alert. The Nalgonda police personnel were enraged after losing their colleagues.

A constable on patrol duty spotted the duo on a motorcycle near Sitaramapuram on Saturday morning and informed his colleagues. A police team headed by Sub-Inspector Gangaram gave them chase but the duo fired at them and escaped towards Janakipuram in Atmakur Mandal of Nalgonda.

Unfortunately, Gangaram’s gun stopped working after firing five rounds which made the escape easy for the assailants.

On the way, they left the motorcycle and snatched another motorcycle from a person at gunpoint and fled. Two to three teams surrounded a place near Anantaram with thick bushes and vegetation where they were suspected to be hiding and when one team in a Tata Suma entered into the bushes, the duo opened fire killing Constable K Nagaraju, who was driving the vehicle. Sub-Inspector P Siddhaiah of Atmakur Police Station, who was sitting beside him, received bullets in his chest and head while Circle Inspector Balgangi Reddy was injured in the hand.

Other police teams then opened fire at the assailants for about 30 minutes and shot them dead.

Siddaiah was rushed to Kamineni Hospital at Hyderabad but he succumbed to the wounds after battling for life for four days.

Initially cops suspected that the duo was dacoits.

However, it turned out that the duo is Zakir Badran and Ayub Aslam who escaped Khandwa Jail in Madhya Pradesh. On February 1 last year, they were involved in the looting of Rs 46 lakhs from SBI’s Chopaddandi branch in Karimnagar district.

The sacrifices made by the four police personnel are the finest examples of their commitment to the nation. The fact that they are trained not for gun battle but only for routine law and order duties did not deter them from offering their lives in the line of duty.

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Sacrifices for better tomorrow

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as many as 437 police personnel of dierent ranks across the country laid down their lives in the line of duty since september 1, 2014 to august 31, 2015.

Police departments of respective states paid rich tributes to the martyrs on the occasion of Police Commemoration day on october 21.

Sl.No. State/Rank TELANGANA

Name (Late)

SI

D Siddaiah

Const-3273

M Lingaiah

Const-3004 Home Guard-277 ANDHRA PRADESH

Sl.No. State/Rank Const Amit Kumar CHHATTISGARH

Nagaraju

SI

Platoon Commander

K Maheswar

Asst. Platoon Commdr.

HC0389

SI

KV Shankar Rao

HC-1647

Manchikalapati Balaji Singh

HC 1105

M Rajulu

Const-200

T Bapisetty

Const-2097

I Poorna chandra rao

Const-2983 Const-1074

Y Chiranjeevulu

Const-1764

K Basaveswara Rao

Const-1723

Ch Vijaya Kumar

Const-1994 ARPC-2498 ARPC-3378 ASSAM

Havaldar

M Lakshmi reddy

D P Srinivasa Rao

Janak Deori

SI

Sanjay Kumar

BIHAR

Const-139 Const 389

Const-1216

Budhdev Sahu

HC-1284

Const-141 Const-347 Const-872

Const-3442

Const - 3083

Adhansa Bada

Ramaprasad Negi

Goutam Ram Rajwade Rajman Neetam

Rajkumar Markam

Mohan Singh Uike Kiran Deshmukh

Alauddeen Shah

Jayprakash Paswan

Const-9

Basant Beera

Const-460

Motiram Telam

Const-40

Const-873 (Driver)

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Shiv Kumar Sidar

Const-446

Const-3532

Avinash Kumar

Manoj Kumar Baghel

Vsnshidhar Kumar

Const-1466

Ramesh Kumar

Mahendra Pratap Singh

Const-08

Const-339

Puneswar Gogai

Const - 115

Rohit Kumar Sori

Const 3146

K Sreenivasulu

Kjrishnapal Singh Kushwar

Yaladi Potti

HC-811

Const-500

M Balaji Shankar

Shankar Reao

Shankar Prasad Joshi

Const-302

M Srinivasa Rao

Avinash Sharma

HC-387

HC0724

NVA Naidu

Const-383

Const-4492

Name (Late)

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Payku Poyami

Sitaram Kunjam

Suman Tirki

Shiva Kashyap

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M. VEVEKANAND

(Kapil Goud), MPTC, Jalpally, RR Dist.

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SPECIAL REPORT Sl.No. State/Rank

Name (Late)

Asst Const-377

Nehru Punem

HC-ARP045701

Sanjeevan Singh

Asst Const-1049

Bhagirathi Kartam

SGCT-ARP993960

Liyaqat Ali Khan

Asst Const-450 Asst Const-429 Asst Const-331 Asst Const-563

Sundarlal Kashyap

mangudu Ram mandavi

Asst Const-1523

Mangal Sodi

Asst Const-327

ASI-2774/SE

Nagendra Pal

SI-1856/D

HC-1528/NW

Const-2733/W

Const-25761/E

Const-3774/SE Const-2132/SE

Dharampal

GUJARAT

PC (Driver)

PC (Lok Rakshak) J&K

Mohammd Akbar Mir

HC-ARPB21916

Gul Mohammad

HC-EXJ84553

HC-EXK911915 HC-ARP871456

Kulbir Singh

Abdul Majeed Wani Tarseem Lal

Om Prakash Chaurasiya Vijay Bhushan Azad Arun Kumar Singh

Arvind Kumar Singh

Const-249

madan Manjhi

Const-3381

Abdulkhan Nattehkhan Nagori

ASI-EXKSO 152

Willam Tirki

Const-200

Gordhanbhai Keshabhai Garva Dilip Ishwarbhai Rathawa

Havaldar

Shankar Giri

Const-2211

Maheshbhai Ramjibhai

Abdul Majid

Durga Prasad Kshetri

Const-1581

Hasmukhbhai Savabhai Madi

Fayaz Ahmad

Moh Rafiq

SI

Havaldar

Jivabha babubhai ninam

Arif Nazin Khar

Ajay Kumar Singh

Havaldar

Satyapal Singh

Shabir Hussain

Abdul Majeed

Inspector

UPC APC

Nasin Ahmad Wani

JHARKHAND

Arjunsingh vala

UPS

Const-EXK1271139

Follower-Exk012548

PSI

ASI

Parshotam lal

Follower-ARP076160

Sahansar Pal Singh

Const-3036/NE

Abdul Qauoom

Const-EXJ065841

Const-ARP001813

Sawkar Pralhad

Yogesh Kumar

Const-2786/C

Zahoor Ahmad

Const-EXK118396

Satendra Singh

Const-2831T

Sanjay Koul

Const-EXK119201

Ajmer Singh

Karamveer Singh

Mohammad Wasim

Const-EXK112355

Praven

Const-2024/OD

Const-2170/OD

Fayaz Ahmad

Const-EXK021965

Kuldeep Dagar

Jagvir Singh

Kuldeep Singh

Gara Lal

Const--ARP011578

Hazirilal

Const-1588/OD

Const-EXJ005648

Const-FXK117731

Lallu Ram Pradhan Subedar Khan

Mhammad Sharief

Const-EXK17959

Raju Telam

SI-5819/D

SGCT-EXJ935868

Const--EXK06561

Rama Majji

Name (Late) Mushtak Ahmad Wani

SGCT-ARP931852

Dokka Telam

Jaydev Yadav

Asst Const-371

HC-EXK8711974

Bheema Ram Telami

Asst Const-1129

Asst Const-1524

Sl.No. State/Rank

Ramul Savaiya

Const-2561

Dukhiya Murmu

KARNATAKA ASI

Veeranagouda

CHC-44

Siddaraju

CHS-2002

AP Bhaskar

CHC-1026

Nemiraj

AHC-20

Anjaney AppaC

CPC-371

Ambanna

APC-2232

M mahadevswamy

APC-195

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D Chandrappa

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Sl.No. State/Rank

Name (Late)

APC-148

Mahesh Babu

Const - 1009 (BN)

Hebingstone Marak

PC-11689

T. H. Srinivas

Const-35200

Moakumzuk AO

WPC-11638

KERALA

Sl.No. State/Rank NAGALAND

Nagamma

Const

SCPG-G113

janardhana Naik

ODISHA

SI

Rameshchandra Dabar

Gram Rakhi

ASI

Ramprasa Lada

MADHYA PRADESH ASI HC-230 HC-177 HC-55

HC-802 HC-475

R K Gautam

Suleman Bhinj

Shravan Kumar Garg

Shyam Sharan Mishra Rajkumar Sharma Bahadur Singh

Brajraj Singh

Const-675

Dharmendra Singh

Sr. Inspector

Vilas Waghreshwar Joshi

HC-1120

Ulhas Anant mayekar

MAHARASHTRA HC-642

HC-1272

HC-22 (Driver) Nayak 2724

Dileep

Shashikant Nivrjutti Rau

Ravindra Tukaram mankar Avinash Tukaram Dhole Doge Dolu Atram

Ajay Prabhakar Gawand

Const-294

Chetan Vinayak Salave

Deepak Raosaheb Kolte

Const-2990

Swarup Ashok Amrutkar

RFN-15007691

K. S. Thotyo

Const-0601154

M Ibotomba Singh

MANIPUR

Const-0101115

MEGHALAYA

E Joykumar Singh

SI (AB)

Promoth Singh

Havaldar

Eldrin Lyngdoh

SISombotsingh K Sangma COnst-28(AB)

Aithom M Sangma

Const-1007 (BN)

Laning Ch Marak

Const-153 (AB)

Jagakhilla

PHG

Sukhdev Singh

PHG PHG

RAJASTHAN

Des Raj

Bodh Raj

HC-895

Faiz Mohammed

DSP

Mahipal Singh Pal

Const-29

Harendra Singh

Const-236

Const-3482 Const-1139

UTTAR PRADESH

Napudevi Prasad Bahuguna Anup SIngh

Dinesh Negi

Prakash Chandra

DSP

Dr. Harendra Singh

Inspector (CP)

Harinagh Tripathi

Inspector (CP) Inspector (CP) SI (V/S)

Rajkumar Singh

Shyamlal Pandey

Prabhakar Sharma

SI (CP)/(V/S)

Khusiram Sharma

SI (CP)

Arun Kumar Singh

SI (CP)

SI (CP)(V/S) SI (CP)

SI (LIU)

SI (M)Steno

Pramod Panwar Sompal Singh

Satyapal Singh

Harveer Singh Lala Ram

Krishnendra Kumar

HC-225 (CP)

Sompal Singh

HC

Ramakant Singh

HC HC

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Kamalkanta Nayak

Baljit Singh

SI (V/S)

Tangseng Narengh

T Hekioba

SP

SI

Nayak-32211 Const-09

PUNJAB

JHARKHAND

Const-101

Const-3835

SI

Name (Late)

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Ram Niwas

Ranjeet Singh

SPECIAL REPORT Sl.No. State/Rank

Name (Late)

HC (P) CP

Prem Chandra Mishra

Const - Driver

Prabhunath

HC(CP)-100

Deshraj Sagar

Const - CP

Umsh Singh

HC(CP)-107

Sarataj Ali

HC (CP)-11

Prakash Chand

HC-34

Ram Wakeel

HC(CP)100(P) HC(P)TAP/TP HC(P)-43 (P)

HC(P)292 CP HC(P)70AP

Chiraunji Lal

Om Prakash Gupta Rambabu Goutam Prem Chandra

Ravindra Singh

HC (P)

Shiv Murti Singh

HC CP

Dileep Kumar

HC 95 CP (P)

Nawab SIngh

HC AP/TP HC 166/CP HC 110/TP

HC 177/TP

Raj Bahadur Singh

Rishipal

Satyaveer Singh Jitendra Singh

HC 315/CP

Vijendra Singh

HC

Baliram

HC-362/CP HC

HC (CP)-37

Ram Khel

Baharan Khan

Vijay Kumar

COnst-954 CP

Satish Chandra

Const-1011

Dushyant Kharav

Const-1180 CP Const-1 CP Const Const

Const Const

Shahjad Ahmad Unitkumar

Sanjay Kumar Singh Veerpal Singh

Subham Goswami Ram Kripal Singh

Const-9890-AP

Triloki Nath Mishra

Const03682 CP

Yogendra nath Pandey

Const-CP

Siya Ram Singh

Const-1611 AP

Const - 17 AP Bigular Const-1155 CP Const-747 CP Const-976 CP

Const - 730 CP Const - 159

Vidya Bhushan Diwedi

Devendra Kumar Singh Sureman Yadav

Tribhuwan Singh Dinesh Pandey

Awdhesh Sngh Yadav Ambuj Singh Yadav

Sl.No. State/Rank Const - 295 CP

Name (Late) Shiv Prasad

Const - 601

Const- 1499 AP Const- 1262 AP

Arvind Kumar Rajveer Singh jagdish Singh

Const- 2704

Mukesh Kumar

Const- 130 CP

Ram Saran

Const- 1095 CP

Satish Chandra

Const - 73 CP

Sekhar Chauhan

Const - 449 CP

Yagveer Singh

Const- 923

Lokendra Singh

Const- 86 CP

Keran Singh

Const-

Ramjeet Yadav

Const- 749

Vijay Nirain

Const- 656 CP

kamlesh Babu

Const- 163 CP

Sohan Singh

Const- 48 CP

Vijay Pratap Mishra

Const- 2986

Suresh babu

Const- CP

Avinash Kumar Shukla

Const- CP

Vikash Tiwari

Const- CP

Ram Abhilash

Const- 30 AP

Jai Prakash

Const - AP/TP

Surendra Pal

Const - 240 CP

Ashok Kumar

Const - 626 CP

Ekant Yadav

Const - 2398 Cp Const - - 132 AP Const - 1914 CP

Sripal Singh

Om Prakash

Sandeep Kumar

Const - 182 CP

Sandeep Singh

Const - 76 CP

Sunil Kumar

Const - 448 CP

Bhudev Kumar

Const - 189 AP

Mohan Kumar

Const - 279 AP

Nitin Verma

Const - 166 CP

Balraj Singh

Const - 768 CP

Randheer Singh

Const - 749 CP

Kulwant Singh

Const - 112 AP

Narendra Singh

Const - 89 CP

Prem Singh

Const - 749 CP

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Sl.No. State/Rank

Name (Late)

Const - 1208 TP

Srichandra Yadav

Const - 2395 Const -

Const - Fireman

Badre Alam Khan Shekh Sikandar

Asgar Ali

Const - 669 CP

Jabar Singh

Const - 434 CP Const - 14 CP Const

Const - 334 CP West Bengal

Narendra Singh

Const - 3778 Const - 677

Const - 1337 Const - 1710 Const - 1039 Const - 1931 Const - 432

Const - 1009 Const - 2253 Const - 517

Const - 536 Const - 637 Const - 383

Plice Driver - 97

Police Driever - 114 Home Guard 1563

Surendra Singh

Arun Kumar Yadav

Mojammel Hossain

Basubeb Chakraborthy

Narayan Chandra majumdar Lablu Miah

Biswajit Biswas

Guna Sindhu Sardar Sumit Das

Swapan kumar Dutta Nural Hasan Mondal Abul Kalam

Monojit Sarkar

Sankar Chandra Shit Kalu Lama

Surajit Das

Asit Kumar maiti Samir Biswas

Rahman Ali Mandal

Sukumar Sarkar

Inspector - 781760128

Mohd Rashid

BSF

Deepander Singh Rathore

ASI- 870091250

R Siddaiah

ASI - 860436676

Devendra Pal

Ran Kishan

Mool Chand Vijay Singh

Ravinder Singh

Ravichandrana M

Const - 120902226

Abhjit Nandy

Const - 133312690 Const - 994001011

Devendra Singh

Kishan Kumar Dubey Subhendu Roy

Const - 120628139

Rocky

Const - 940065750

Pradeep Kumar Paul

Const - 133303993 Const - 909446298 Const - 11002797

Const - 121010975 Const - 114220741

Const - 124521287 Const - 13420081

Sunil Kumar

Dilbagh Singh

Rasikul Mandal

Nitin Kumar Pandey Rajesh Yadav Alok Tripathi

Mudasir Nazir

Const - 083980815

Viswas Kumar

Const - 940430623

Khagendra Nath Mahto

Const - 01003391

C Rama Krishna Chikkala

Const - 12129631

Kaigouhao Kipgin

K Anil Kumar Reddy Promot Kumar Tiwar

Const - 091870601

Raju Mondal

Const - 902108017

Santosh Rao

Const - 111220740

Mohd Rafiq

Const - 95109010 (Cook) Const - 001010369

Const - 90343004 Const - 86254081 Const - (CREW) Const - leeluram

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Shamsher Singh

Shri Ram Gawaria

Const - 062542832

Const - 130827447

SI - 1090076

Ramesh Chand

Const - 930056522

Const - 03156742

Santosh Basumata

Biswanath Dutta

HC 930096229

Const - 041095590

Amar Chand Raoy

Home Guard

Adil Abbas

HC 902548817

Fatick Chandra Sarkar

Const 184

HC 902431818

HC - 81002552

Prem Narain

ASI 47 (UB) ASI 2214

Neeraj Singh Chahal

HC 901722537

Rabi Hamberam

ASI 1321

Hc - 891310992

HC - 886889151

ASI - 3108 (UB) ASI 2500

Judresh Yadav

HC 030091957

Ashok Kumar

Name (Late)

HC - 892436613 HC - 890036190

Sanjay

Const - 629 CP

Const - 133 AP

Sl.No. State/Rank

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Ashok Kumar

S Krishan

Bikash Kumar Rai Diwan Chand

Govind Singh G S Abhilash

SPECIAL REPORT Sl.No. State/Rank

Name (Late)

Const -

Shelke Rajiv Kishan

Const CISF

Rajesh Kumar Sharma

ASI/EXE-773460117

R Ganeshan

HC/GD-834570050

A Subburaj

HC/GD 884495754

S Amalraj

ASI/EXE764490550 HC/GD-882293546 HC/GD-884494658 Const - 064490074 Const - 003280254 RP

Shiv Pujan Ram

Mohan Singh Suresh Singh Yadav Anil Kumar Singh

gora Charan Singh

Dy Comdt. 5320

B. S. Verma

Asst Comdt 9005

Rajesh Kapura

Dy Comdt. 9039

SI/GD 12501953

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ALL FOR THEIR WELFARE

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elangana State Police gives highest priority to the welfare of police personnel and their families with a slew of welfare measures and other benefits aimed to improve their lives Over fifty thousand police personnel have been keeping vigil of the society round the clock forgoing their personal and domestic requirements in the state.

They undergo a lot of hardship, contract diseases, lose their limbs and sometimes fall to the bullets of extremists and anti-social elements. This year four police personnel were killed in Telangana fighting terrorists.

With a meager salary and no extra benefits, they have to suffer personal losses and most often they are

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unable to take care of their families properly.

Keeping these adverse conditions in view, Telangana state police has been giving highest priority for the welfare of its personnel who lose their private life for maintaining the law and order and to protect the society from extremists and terrorists.

A lot of welfare measures have been introduced to the families of the police personnel who laid down their lives in the line of duty. In case of casualties due to violence by extremists or terrorists, the bereaved families of constables are paid an ex gratia of Rs 40 lakh each (enhanced recently), while the bereaved families of Head Constable to Sub-Inspector rank officials are paid an ex gratia of Rs 25 lakh each and the families of inspector and above ranks get an ex gratia of Rs 30 lakh.

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SPECIAL REPORT The injured police personnel – Police Constable to Inspector and above rank - are given a compensation of Rs 10 lakh in case of permanent incapacitation and Rs 3 lakh each in case of grievous injury.

Proposals had been sent to the government seeking Rs 40 lakh each for the bereaved families of police constables to Assistant Sub-Inspectors, Rs 45 lakh each for the bereaved families of Sub-Inspectors, Rs 50 lakh each for the bereaved families of Inspectors, deputy superintendents and additional superintendents of police and Rs 1 crore each for the bereaved families of superintendents of police and all IPS officers.

Proposals had also been sent to the government seeking enhancement of compensation in case of permanent incapacitation for the police personnel while on duty. A compensation of Rs 25 lakh for the ranks between police constable and SIs, Rs 30 lakh for Inspectors, deputy superintendents and additional superintendents of police and Rs 50 lakh for superintendents of police and all IPS officers.

In case of grievous hurt, government has been requested to enhance the compensation up to Rs 5 lakh in case of police constables to additional superintendents of police and up to Rs 6 lakh for superintendents of police and all IPS officers.

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The government has been requested to accord permission for biennial health checkup for all the police personnel in the state after the age of 40 years, while another proposal for a 50-bed super specialty hospital for the police department is under process with the government.

In all, every possible measure has been taken to ensure that every police person, serving or retired, gets proper assistance from the department. We are committed to provide all necessary help for the welfare of police personnel and their families.

On the occasion of Martyrs’ Day, we salute the brave policemen who lost their lives while fighting for the peace and welfare of the society!

Further, the last drawn pay of the deceased in such circumstances along with the HRA is paid to the spouse or dependent family member till the projected date of retirement of the deceased. Compassionate

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appointments and house sites are provided to the spouse or dependent family member.

Free education is given to the children of the deceased in government run residential schools and junior colleges. Two percent reservation in engineering seats, 0.25 per cent reservation in MBBS, BDS courses has been provided for the children of the deceased.There are other benefits including train travel concessions, group personal accident insurance policy, enrolment of widows into ‘Bhadratha’ scheme, coverage of ‘Arogya Bhadrata’ for the widow, medical facilities for the family members of the deceased.

Flag Fund

A Flag Fund has been created for the rehabilitation of police personnel injured in accidents or during violence while discharging their dues, sanction of scholarships to the children of bereaved families and sanction of full maintenance allowance and full fee in all recognized institutions.

The Flag Fund is also used for the maintenance of three orphan police boys’ hostels and to pay the tuition fee, expenditure towards clothing and boarding of inmates, sanction of marriage grant of Rs 50,000 up to two daughters in each family of the police personnel died while on duty or medically invalidated due to injuries sustained while on duty.

Bhadratha

Another significant scheme introduced by the police department is Bhadratha. Entire police force including the ministerial staff (58,502) are covered under this scheme.

An amount of Rs 3.92 crore was paid from Bhadratha to the families of 172 members on their natural death, while Rs 1.32 crore was paid to 31 families of police personnel who were killed in accidents.

An amount of Rs 24.02 crore has been released for 451 members towards house loans, while an amount of Rs 12.64 crore to 153 members was sanctioned towards educational loan. An amount of Rs 40.27 crore for 3,270 members was sanctioned towards personal loan, while Rs 4 lakh was sanctioned to 11 members towards computer loan.

In 35 cases of personal loans worth Rs 16 lakh and 11 cases of housing loans worth Rs 39 lakh were written off during the year on account of the death of

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the members, while Rs 5.51 crore has been refunded to 1002 members on their retirement.

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In all 60,376 members are covered under Arogya Bhadratha scheme, the beneficiaries being four lakh including spouse and three dependent children in each family. The scheme helps members financially up to Rs.8 lakh in a financial year and in special cases Rs 15 lakh. At present, 94 super specialty hospitals all over the state are accredited under Arogya Bhadratha scheme, while applications of 58 new hospitals are pending for inspection and empanelment. During the year 13,940 members availed the scheme and an amount of Rs 33.71 crore was paid to the hospitals so far. Physically challenged dependent children irrespective of their age are covered under ABS, while proposals had been sent for inclusion of dependent parents of police personnel in the scheme.

Central Police Canteens

To make consumer items affordable for the policemen, we have set up canteens on par with the central armed forces canteens. As a welfare measure to the state police force, this facility will be extended across the State. Central Police Canteens have already been established in 15 units and three more canteens will soon be opened in different parts of the state.

The total members to be covered under this scheme are around 3 lakh including retired police personnel and their family members.

Nearly 212 firms/companies manufacturing branded products are supplying all essential commodities and consumer items to the CPCs at a discount rate of 20 to 25 per cent of the market rate.

Home guards welfare

Duty allowance has been enhanced from Rs 300 to Rs 400 a day for Home Guards. A compensation of Rs 5 lakh will be paid to home guards in case of death, while Rs 2 lakh in case of permanent incapacitation and Rs 75,000 will be paid in case of grievous hurt.

Social Security Scheme with coverage of Rs 5 lakh accidental insurance has been introduced for home guards apart from some other financial benefits in case of death or injury for the serving home guards.

(The author is Director General of Police, Telangana State)

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Whenever there is an emergency situation, be it a riot, violent protest, extremist ambush, natural calamity or celebration of festivals, the Special Police of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh play a vital role keeping the situation under control

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pecial Police (SP), the armed wing of the police departments of Tealangana and Andhra Pradesh is trained to tackle any situation with utmost courage and commitment. Referred to as ‘Situation Specialists’, the TSSP & APSP men aid the local police in tackling major law and order problems such as counter-extremist operations, riots and natural calamities within and outside the state.

The TSSP & APSP forms about one sixth of the police forces of the two states. The TSSP & APSP contribution and significance can be assumed with the fact that a majority of the elite anti-extremist wing, the Greyhounds commandos are drawn from the TSSP & APSP. Further, TSSP & APSP is also the feeder force for district and city armed reserve units in the state.

Constant training and upgradation of skills are the key aspects of TSSP & APSP in view of the fast changing internal security scenario where disruptive and terrorist forces adopt latest techniques in low intensified warfare.

To keep the TSSP & APSP battle worthy at all times to meet any challenge likely to be thrown up by disruptive elements, the special police wing has targeted 100 per cent refresher training for all its men and officers at least once a year. In-service courses are organized in all battalions regularly with this objective in mind.

TSSP & APSP is deployed whenever major bandobast arrangements are to be made for events like Ganesh festival, Bonalu, political events, riot control and guarding police stations in sensitive areas etc. TSSP & APSP is also deployed in times of natural calamities to help victims.

It is the TSSP & APSP personnel who first face

the bullets of the disruptive elements in case there is an attack on the police stations because the TSSP & APSP personnel are deployed in almost every police station located in the extremist affected areas.

Of late, there has been tremendous work pressure on the TSSP & APSP personnel due to growing demand for their services within and outside the state. The work pressure has been keeping the TSSP & APSP personnel away from their homes for longer periods than stipulated time inviting criticism from the families of the personnel.

However, higher-ups of the police department initiated certain measures in a move to ease pressure on the personnel. Besides, the department has started central police canteens at almost all the battalion headquarters where police personnel can get everything at subsidized prices on the lines of military canteens.

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Traffic cops, real heroes I

nnovation of wheel has made transportation easier and resulted in the outbreak of industrial revolution. But the wheel in the form of push carts to heavy vehicles on the roads of Hyderabad is leading to traffic congestion with the fixed carriage way of 9% which is very meager when compared to other metros.

Hyderabad is growing in leaps and bounds with the invention of information technology. The diversity of traffic is in transit regularly on the roads of Hyderabad causing health disorders among the traffic police personnel who strive to regulate the traffic from dawn to dusk.

The percentage of Chlorofluorocarbons, commonly known as CFCs, present in environment is increasing by the day with the increase in vehicular traffic leading to gradual reduce in the life span of traffic police personnel. Yet, the traffic police go unrecognized and the personnel posted on traffic duties feel theirs is a thankless job.

Moreover, traffic personnel are cursed by many for the traffic snarls caused on the roads due to lapses of other departments. Traffic police personnel strive to clear the water logging, remove the fallen trees and fill the pits on the roads to ensure free flow of traffic in adverse

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climatic conditions, though it is not their job. But neither the society nor the media recognizes the problems of the traffic personnel.

Further, the bifurcation of the state has multiplied the number of VIPs in the jurisdiction of Hyderabad and Secunderabad with

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the reduced carriage way due to metro rail project. This has made the life of traffic police personnel miserable, but they never lose their cool and instead exhibit their patience in regulating the traffic for long hours. In the process, traffic personnel are deprived of physical and mental rest and vacation.

Traffic police has taken up the onus of saving the lives of individuals by covering the manholes on the roads, removing fallen electric wires and clearing the road for ambulances. Also, accidents are reduced through stringent enforcement against drunken driving and other traffic violations. Thus, traffic personnel

are proving to be life saving angels, while their own life span is reducing gradually because of air and noise pollution and adverse climatic conditions they work.

However, traffic police personnel are visualized in a negative manner due to strict enforcement drives meant to save the lives of commuters. To overcome this hurdle and to uphold the brand image of Hyderabad, city police has introduced people friendly policing and non contact enforcement, non enforcement during peak hours, no enforcement at junctions, introduction of proper signage at the place of enforcement and introduction of body worn.

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The police personnel are being sensitized and the violators are being brought to book without confrontation.

Also, road engineering aspects such as improving traffic signaling system is in the last stage of completion and the traffic police is planning to bring all the junctions under electronic surveillance with which the citizens will become more responsible and law abiding so that accidents and casualties will be reduced and will enable the city of Hyderabad to be safe and smart.

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(The author is Additional Commissioner of Police, Hyderabad)

WAR WITHOUT HONOUR While many officers who just pass instructions from their air-conditioned offices to the ground-level personnel during combing operations manage to get gallantry medals, those who fall to the bullets while fighting the extremists often go unrecognized. Four senior officers in the annals of Andhra Pradesh police, who laid down their lives in the line of duty, are known for their valour and their concern for the police personnel and the society as a whole.

The four fallen heroes are K S Vyas, Paradesi Naidu, Chadalawada Umesh Chandra and G Krishna Prasad. While Krishna Prasad was assassinated by Islamic fundamentalists, the other three officers were killed by the left wing extremists.

Unfortunately, non of the four officials was given any medol for gallantry. It is time the authorities concerned take steps to recognise their valour and present medals for gallantry, posthumously.

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yas was on the top of the left wing extremists’ hit list because the elite anti-naxalite unit Greyhounds was his brainchild and the Maoists feared the outfit the most.Sensing the growing menace of Maoists, Vyas came up with the idea of starting a specialised force to deal with them since the local police were in no way capable of fighting the armed guerrillas.

Steps were taken to start the specialised combat force – Greyhounds - in the year 1989. The name of Greyhounds was changed to Special Security Force (SSF) and its services were utilised for various other purposes as some people in the administration tried to play spoilsport.

Subsequently, the founder of Greyhounds, Vyas was assassinated by the Naxalites when he was jogging at the LB Stadium along with his wife Aruna Vyas on January 27, 1993. He was the first IPS officer to be killed by Naxalites. Later, the Greyhounds was revived with full vigour and a specialised intelligence cell named the Special Intelligence Bureau (SIB) was created to help Greyhounds locate the target. The Greyhounds and the SIB together caused irreparable losses to the left-wing extremists forcing them to run away from the state.

A senior IPS officer who worked as the director general of National Security Guards (NSG) says, “Today Andhra Pradesh police is aware of each and every movement of Maoists in the country. It is due to this reason, the entire nation is looking to Greyhounds for help in purging Maoists.”

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dditional Superintendent of Police G Krishna Prasad was shot to death along with his gunman Venkateswar Rao on November 29, 1992 by ISI sponsored terrorist module.

Prasad had gone to search a house following inputs about some terrorists hiding in a house at Brindavan Colony in Tolichowki area of Old city.

The courageous officer did not know that the terrorists were armed with automatic rifles like Kalashnikovs. He knocked at the door when two unsuspecting girls opened the door and tried to prevent Krishna Prasad from making his way into the house.

In the meantime, the terrorists opened fire with the automatic rifles killing Krishna Prasad and his gunman instantaneously.

However, the valour of Krishna Prasad and his gunman did not go in vain. Since Krishna Prasad opened fire from his service pistol in reply to the gunfire from AK56 rifle, the girls received some bullet wounds and came to a hospital for treatment but were caught. Subsequently, they were interrogated and the terror module was neutralised.

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mesh Chandra was a courageous and sincere IPS officer known for his great leadership qualities, effective management skills and humanitarian outlook. He commanded unquestioned loyalty and respect from his colleagues. He took keen interest in addressing the problems of the police personnel at home front. He ensured that basic facilities such as water and power connections and road facility were provided for the residential colonies of the police personnel.

While working as the Superintendent of Police, he organised flood relief operations in Kadapa district, without the support of any NGO or the government. He also founded Warangal Police Jagruthi Brundam to dissuade the left wing extremists from wrong path.

Umesh Chandra worked hard to curb the Maoist menace wherever he worked. He conducted some of the best operations in the annals of AP Police history to curb the Maoist menace. But, Umesh Chandra was shot dead by Maoists on a busy Hyderabad road on September 4, 1999 in broad daylight, allegedly due to lack of proper security.

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he dynamic IPS officer was the Superintendent of Police for Mahbubnagar district when he was killed by the left wing extremists on November 13, 1993.

On the fateful day, Paradesi Naidu reached Kolhapur and headed towards Somasila with limited manpower to visit the forest guest house blown up and one RTC bus set on fire by the Maoists.

The SP spoke to villagers after inspecting the crime scene and appealed to the people not to extend cooperation to the Maoists. Later, the SP and other police personnel started their return journey. Within no time, there was a deafening sound of explosion. The bus in which the SP and other personnel were travelling was blown off and it went up in the air coming in contact with the live high power cables resulting in electric short circuit.

While the injured police personnel were still in shock, the Maoists opened gunfire asking the cops to surrender.

But Paradesi Naidu, a courageous man he was, instilled confidence in the minds of his personnel, though he himself was paralysed due to loss of both his limbs. The SPs words worked wonders and those who were in a position to handle weapons retaliated. The pitched battle went on for two hours until reinforcements came.

However, Paradesi Naidu, bled to death by the time the gunfight was over.

Chah Nahin Mai SurBala Ke Gehnon Mein Guntha Jaaon Chah Nahin Premi Mala Mein Bindh, Pyari Ko Lalchaon

Chah Nahin Samraton Ke Shav Par, He Hari Dala Jaaon Chah Nahin Devon Ke Sar Par Chadhon, Bhagya Par Itraoon

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Today police are aware of each and every movement of Maoists in the country. It is due to this reason, the entire nation is looking to Greyhounds for help in purging Maoists

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he elite commando force, a brainchild of slain IPS officer K S Vyas, was raised in 1989 with the main objective of dealing effectively with the left wing extremism.

The commando force, with the help of inputs given by the Special Intelligence Bureau (SIB), has been able

to chase away the Maoists from the state and still keeps the outlaws at bay.

Today, Greyhounds academy imparts commando training for police personnel from the Maoist affected states in fighting the outlaws. But the Greyhounds does not recruit personnel directly. It only takes personnel on deputation from other units, mainly from APSP after testing their strengths. The state's paramilitary

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force, TSSP and APSP, are the feeding units for the Greyhounds.

The selected personnel aged less than 25 years would be given commando training to fight Maoists in the thick jungles. The Greyhounds training is very tough and very effective that even paramilitary forces, police forces from other states and even neighbouring countries are sending select personnel for training at the Greyhounds academy.

The Greyhounds commandos are deployed in jungles after analysing the intelligence inputs and in perfect coordination with the district police units to function through local police in specific situations.

Greyhounds commandos also provide security cover for VIPs and VVIPs, besides helping local police in times of grave law and order troubles and

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natural calamities.

Greyhounds commandos have been making enormous sacrifices. Despite tough training, its commandos face various health problems, particularly viral fevers and knee joint pains because of the terrain in which they work.

As many as 57 Greyhounds personnel had been killed in the line of duty so far. Of this, 36 personnel were killed in just one incident at Balimela, in the state of Odisha.

The Greyhounds is trying to erase the unfortunate incident from the memory and ensure maximum welfare measures for its commandos.

(The author is a Correspondent with The News magazine)

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s many as 1,551 BSF personnel laid down their lives in the line of duty since its inception, which speaks for itself about the commitment to national security, patriotism and high order of professionalism.

The supreme sacrifice of the Borderman has been duly recognized by the government by awarding 1 Mahavir Chakra, 11 Veer Chakra, 4 Kirti Chakra, 12 Shourya Chakra, 231 President Police Medal for Gallantry and 870 Police Medal for Gallantry.

BSF was raised on December 1, 1965, with a humble beginning of 25 battalions of Armed Police of Bordering States. Today, it has emerged to be the world’s largest Border Guarding Force. BSF proudly guards 6,623 kms stretch of Border of India with Pakistan and Bangladesh. To mark the occasion of the Police Commemoration Day, BSF conducted 61 felicitation programmes in different places and the main function was held at New Delhi where BSF ‘Golden Jubilee Coffee Table Book’ was unveiled and ‘Commemorative Postage Stamp’ was also released by Union The News You Like NOVEMBER, 2015

Home Minister Rajnath Singh.

The 50 years BSF history has been a Glorious Saga of valour, sacrifices and dedication where BSF has stood up to every challenge and emerged triumphant.

BSF has played a pivotal role and contributed immensely to all facets of National Security right from its inception.

Besides guarding the International Border, BSF has shouldered various responsibilities such as election duties, aid to civil authorities during natural calamities, law & order duties with great devotion and dedication.

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Challenges of INTERNAL SECURITY Political leaders have neglected and politically exploited the police and their intelligence apparatus. This has, over the years, adversely affected the discipline, morale and efficiency of the police.

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ime is turbulent. The country is facing myriad problems both from outside and within. The internal security scenario in the country today is grim. The Indian state seems increasingly incapable of protecting the life and property of its citizens.

The long drawn cross-border terrorism in Jammu & Kashmir, repeated terrorist strikes in crowded city centres in different parts of the country, growing ethnic insurgency in several states in the North-East and above all, the reign of terror unleashed by the Naxals in 13 Indian states have jeopardized India’s internal security.

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The threats from various non-state actors have posed severe challenge to the state overshadowing the traditional military threats to India’s territorial integrity from Pakistan and China. What is at stake today is the stability and integrity of the nation. The ISI of Pakistan, with covert assistance from Bangladesh and Nepal, have been training, funding and equipping separatist groups in Kashmir, various home grown ‘Jihadi’ terror cells in different parts of the country and the insurgents in the North-East.

There are reasons to believe that the so-called ‘left extremists’ are also receiving arms, equipment and support from our neighbourhood.

These persistent security threats are core issues needing urgent attention from the government

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SPECIAL REPORT because India’s much vaunted march forward as a regional power will depend on whether or not we succeed in overcoming the challenges.

It is important to note that nearly all our internal security problems have external dimensions, one way or the other. A large multi-ethnic, multi-religious, diverse country with hundreds of castes and tribes has inherent potential for intra-state conflicts. The problem has become all the more acute because the state, even after sixty years of Independence, has failed to deliver social and economic justice to vast majority of its citizens despite tall promises made in the constitution.

A democratic, free, liberal country like ours is especially vulnerable because it offers endless opportunities to terrorists and insurgents to operate, establish bases, raise funds, procure weapons, communicate and mobilize support from the civil

society. The ruling political elite and corrupt, inefficient bureaucracy have not only failed to govern and deliver the core services, they have also demonstrated lamentable lack of will and courage to adopt strong measures and tackle the growing threats to security.

The leaders in power have politicized the response to terror. They remain ever reluctant to adopt strong legal measures for fear of losing at the elections because tough terrorism-specific laws, though passed in many democratic countries in the west, would be unpopular among a section of India’s population.

According to the US state Department’s latest annual report on terrorism, India ranks among world’s most terrorism afflicted countries. The report also notes that despite the government’s official pronouncements, its counter-terrorism efforts remain

A democratic, free, liberal country like ours is especially vulnerable because it offers endless opportunities to terrorists and insurgents to operate, establish bases, raise funds, procure weapons, communicate and mobilize support from the civil society hampered by outdated law-enforcement and legal systems.

Our security architecture, both at the Centre and the states, needs radical reform. The government at the centre has taken certain measures following huge public outrage and media outbursts after the Mumbai attacks in November 2008.

But these measures are not enough.

Unless the civil society demands fundamental changes, the security scenario cannot be reversed in the foreseeable future.

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engages itself in mainly fire-fighting operations to mollify the people. But public memory is notoriously short and people soon forget what happened and live their daily lives hoping for the best. A sense of complacency inevitably sets in and as a result, no substantial change takes place in the security management apparatus.

The government has set up a National Investigation Agency (NIA) with much fanfare. It is just another central investigation agency empowered to investigate certain specified offences under eight laws including the ‘Atomic Energy Act’ and ‘The Anti-Hijacking Act’. It has no role whatsoever in prevention of terrorist acts. Indeed, it can be wound up or merged with the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) which needs greater authority and power to promptly take up investigation of cases without waiting for concerned state government’s consent and concurrence. The NIA is yet to become fully operational. We have seen but failed to draw lessons from the USA where unified single Department of Homeland Security was created after 9/11 attack bringing together multifarious security organizations in four divisions under one umbrella.

In India, we are heading in the opposite direction by creating new additional institutions.

The government has taken credit for giving greater teeth to the Unlawful Activities (Prevention)

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Act (UAPA), 1967 which replaced the tough Prevention of Terrorist Act (POTA). There is no doubt that the UAPA has been strengthened but it still lacks the special enforcement provisions which POTA had, such as, admissibility of confession before a Police Officer, burden of proof of innocence on the accused, tougher bail conditions and so on.

The fight against terror must focus on external and domestic networking and financing of terror which remain beyond the scope of routine legislation such as the UAPA. It is time that the logic of overriding national interest finally prevailed over petty shortsighted electoral politics.

The need of the hour is an apex body like National Counter Terrorism Centre which will have the database relating to all terrorist incidents and terrorism related information with powers to tackle all aspects of terrorism — right from prevention and pre-emption through collection of inputs/intelligence from central and state agencies, coordination and sharing of intelligence between central and state agencies to monitoring investigation, prosecution and trial of cases.

Another urgent and long pending task is police reforms and modernization of the police in the states.

Internal security cannot be maintained unless the states discharge their constitutional duty to secure peace and public order. The political leaders have

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The directives issued by the Supreme Court in September 2006 have so far been complied with by only a few states — mostly in the North East. There have been repeated demands since long for replacing the outdated Police Act of 1861 by a new Act to ensure greater accountability of the police and insulate the force from political manipulation by giving them greater autonomy. neglected and politically exploited the police and their intelligence apparatus. This has, over the years, adversely affected the discipline, morale and efficiency of the police. The much discussed and long awaited police reforms have yet to take place due to reluctance on the part of the political leaders in the states cutting across party lines.

The directives issued by the Supreme Court in September 2006 have so far been complied with by only a few states — mostly in the North East. There have been repeated demands since long for replacing the outdated Police Act of 1861 by a new Act to ensure greater accountability of the police and insulate the force from political manipulation by giving them greater autonomy.

The state police forces and their intelligence branches are grossly unprepared to deal with the challenges facing them. They are under-staffed, under-equipped, ill-trained and poorly paid. India has one of the lowest police - population ratio in the world (142 per 100000). The ratio is 315 in the USA, 290 in Australia, 300 in Germany and 200 in the U.K. The problem is further compounded by huge chunk of the force wasted for protection of the so-called VIP’s. Side by side with police reforms, the entire criminal justice system needs a thorough overhaul.

Finally and most importantly, we need to examine our intelligence set up and revitalize the Indian intelligence mechanism. The performance of our agencies came under sharp scrutiny of the Kargil Review Committee. The government appointed a task force following the report and its recommendations were accepted by the group of Ministers. However, nothing changed substantially since then. The multi-agency centre hardly took off the ground. The National Security Council and the joint Intelligence Committee have become almost dysfunctional.

The basic reform must begin with a new multidiscipline futuristic approach to collection and

dissemination of intelligence. With rapid advances in technology and information revolution, the agencies will more and more need talented experts, scientists, engineers, IT professionals etc. in order to collect, analyze and interpret vast quantity of complex data from variety of sources. The effectiveness of our national intelligence effort will be directly proportional to the quality and skill of men and women recruited by the agencies. This calls for sufficient career incentives to attract and retain qualified individuals from the universities, private sector, corporate world and institutes of excellence.

In other words, there is need for a paradigm shift in national security culture so that lateral recruitment of experts at all levels could be done as and when necessary.

While structural reforms are essential, any rethinking about intelligence will no doubt focus on what kind of intelligence should be or need to be collected. As there is no institutionalized systems of tasking by the consumers of intelligence and performance audit, the agencies disseminate whatever they collect, process and analyze. Their typical product is treated as free good. In the absence of regular feedbacks from consumers, there is excessive reliance on reportorial current intelligence because what is easy to read is most likely to be read.

Further, the policymaker is often reluctant to accept information that challenges past experience and conventional wisdom. As a result, the analysts in the agency work under constant pressure for conformity and shun innovative, out of the box conclusions.

They seldom anticipate scenarios that appear low in probability but high in consequence. Since there is no accountability, heads do not roll when disaster strikes. It is time we had legislative oversight of intelligence activities to ensure accountability of our agencies.

(The author is former Director General, Security)

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PoliCe and saFety A society gets the police it deserves. If the society will not rise to higher values, neither will the police. In UK the police are now a well loved institution. Police in India should be given the same pedestal that the judiciary enjoys. This can only happen if all the stake holders here do their bit.

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hy do people in India love to despise the police? The seeds of the mystery are buried in the deep history of the British Raj, so deep that the modern narrative on the subject hardly ever brings it under scrutiny.

The original culprit is the Police Act of 1861 which laid the foundations of the current police systems in the country. The Act was a creation to safeguard the Raj and its officialdom and not the interests of the people. The Act, among other measures, established the rural police to control

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crime and law and order in the villages of the country. The rural police who were expected to patrol the villages were not provided funds for transportation or food while on tour. They were expected to live off the ground. The practice grew into the ‘hafta’ habit, overlooked by the administration on one hand but treated as unwarranted imposition by the people at large.

The Police Act of 1861 did not see any change when India emerged as an independent nation in 1947. The new executive infrastructure continued to exercise the same absolute control over the police through the mechanism of superintendence

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enshrined in the law. The systems were not altered to bring them in line with those in other democracies of the world that all preferred to give their police an autonomous status for it to function in an independent accountable fashion. Only autocratic or despotic dispensations like to keep their police structures under their thumb. For the Indian Police passage of India from colonialism to independence only amounted to change of masters. Instead of the earlier Raj agenda, the police were now constrained to support party and personal briefs. Whims and fancies of the ruling classes now defined what needed to be done or avoided. The interests of the Aam Admi were never the prime consideration of the powers that be. The Aam Admi in independent India also started believing that police was no friend of his.

The Indian Evidence Act added to the miseries of the police and enhanced the distrust which the society had for the police. This law stipulated that no confession made before a police official would on its own constitute valid evidence in a court of law irrespective of his rank. In other flourishing democracies of the world the word of a policeman has the same value in a law court as that of any other government functionary.

The Constitution of the country also handicaps the operational objectives of the police. When it

makes police a subject within the exclusive jurisdiction of the States, it automatically denies the Centre any rights to constructive deliberation on police issues. This has resulted in numerous problems since the police remain at the mercy of the state executive. The magnitude of the resultant harm is glaringly evident in the way terrorism and Maoism, arguably the most sinister threats to national security, are being handled in the country.

No national policy to tackle them can be evolved.

There is no national coordination. No effective single national instrument to deal with them holistically can be created. The menace is forever enlarging and advancing into new regions but the central or state rulers remain helpless to find effective remedies.

This results in a cognitive blackout in the minds of the people. They remain unaware that the resulting law and order problems or their sense of insecurity are not all because of police failures but because of a structure of laws and the vested interests of its beneficiaries that make such failures inevitable.

Disgust against the police naturally soars Such an unfortunate predicament of the police is well recognized since long by the well wishers of the police. Numerous commissions at the central and state levels after deep scrutiny of all the factors have suggested a slew of reforms to convert police into a people friendly effective, accountable and transparent institution. A committee under the eminent lawyer, Soli Sorabjee, drafted a new Police Act to replace the Act of 1861 but the state or central administrations have shown almost total indifference to the recommendations. Their attitude proclaims that let the people suffer or the police have a damaging image but they cannot let go of their powers of superintendence over the police as otherwise their freedom to use police any way they want will get curtailed.

Seeing no other way out some activists finally took the matter to the Supreme Court in 2006 through a PIL. In 2008 the Supreme Court gave mandatory directions which would make police autonomous in investigations, guarantee them at various levels a minimum tenure of posting and free the appointments of Director Generals of Police from the benumbing control of the executive heads of the governments. A mechanism was also provided to look exhaustively into complaints against the police.

Sad to say the mandatory orders of the Supreme Court have not been implemented by any one and

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none has been held accountable. One wonders if the reluctance of the Supreme Court to move speedily into the matter reflects a cultural bias of the judiciary against actions against the political class where issues could be seen as infringing on the personal privileges of this class. Be that it may, this much remains certain, the infirmities of the police and its consequential impact on the sensitivities of the people will stay as they are, for long years to come if such a mindset continues.

The conflicts between political assertiveness over the police and simple needs of people for security and stability lead to many legal, moral and philosophical conundrums. The police under no circumstances should cross the red lines of law and human rights but the state fails to provide them with alternatives to operate effectively and decisively in Maoist affected environments without causing alienation among people.

The criminal justice systems of the country and societal fault lines worsen the police image, making policing a democratic society a thankless job.

Rampant corruption among bureaucrats, politicians and judiciary has made crime a low risk and high profile business. The judicial system gives no joy to the people because of its bullock cart speed. Under trials constitute the majority population in jails. The police public ratio in India is about 113 per lakh of

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population when it should be around 232 -245 according to international standards. The police are simply unable to cope with its various burdens and its image plummets. In Delhi, three policemen are deployed to guard every VIP. For the rest of the citizens there is one for over 700.

The nature of the Indian society throws up constantly big challenges for the police. Its linguistic, ethnic and religious divisions often create confusing scenarios for the police. Local loyalties and prejudices make short work of the larger commitments which a citizen must be presumed to hold for his country. In the cross fire between narrow interests and abiding values the police turn out to be the ultimate losers.

A society gets the police it deserves. If the society will not rise to higher values, neither will the police. In UK the police are now a well loved institution. Police in India should be given the same pedestal that the judiciary enjoys. This can only happen if all the stake holders here do their bit. It is wrong to say that the police are failing the government and the society. On the contrary it is the government and the society that are failing the police.

(The author is former president, The Association of Retired Senior IPS officers)

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Sad, but true. Despite several initiatives by the top brass to bring in awareness and measures for community policing, the overworked policeman fails to win common man’s trust, thanks to the negative image created by the media

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hen will the police in India earn the trust of the common man?

The question was put to me by a nephew on a visit to India recently from the USA, where he has been settled for the last 10 years, teaching in a university. The query was prompted by his experience in towns in India that he had visited of reluctance on the part of people to approach the police, even where police help

could be validly sought and justifiably expected, unless the matter was serious and police intervention unavoidable.

According to him, in America, police response is usually prompt and attitude sympathetic and helpful to the person in distress. On the contrary, in India, he found the general public impression to be that reporting to police would be an exercise in futility and could even turn out to be an invitation to prolonged harassment. Police would often The News You Like NOVEMBER, 2015

avoid registering a report, at least promptly, much less responding quickly.

Reporting to the police might entail endless visits to the police, and later to the courts (if the matter reached there), and, finally, often with no results after years, sometimes decades, of wait. Even worse, the aggrieved himself could be pressurized to pay for police help or compromise with the aggressor, especially if the latter happened to be a person of means or resources. A person

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A police team sensitising vendors near Charminar to be vigilant

from non-affluent background or without any ‘approach’ (the 'common man'), might not even get a civil treatment at the police station. In his perception, the policeman usually is an insensitive and corrupt bully.

How does anyone expect him to trust the police in this scenario?

This despite the fact that the policeman, by all accounts, is one of the most overworked functionaries of all the government departments, working invariably for more than the normal 6-8 hours for most other government servants, with generally no over-time allowance or weekly offs, not even festival holidays to celebrate with his family. He has to slog the beat when others sleep, come rain, hail or biting winter cold. The risks in his job are increasing everyday--he not

only faces mob violence during riots and agitations but is also being increasingly targeted by criminals, terrorists and other unruly elements. Every year about 1000 policemen, both from civil police and paramilitary forces are killed on duty.

This also despite the wellaccepted recognition now of the importance of community cooperation and participation for meaningful and effective policing and initiatives by police officers in several states to involve the community in policing—Community Liaison Groups (on a model developed under a UNDP Project), Neighbourhood Watch, Thana Committees, Mohalla Committees, Dost, Senior Citizens’ Schemes, Friends of the Police etc. While these set

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ups, no doubt, help in better sensitization of policemen and improving police-community interface, especially in the area of their operation, they have their limitations. Particularly, they have not been able to bring about an over-all attitudinal change in policemen, which is essential for earning the trust of the people. Problems are understood to be faced under such schemes due to various factors, such as: Difficulty in sensitizing the policemen as a whole Temptation for unscrupulous elements among the public to join for their own ulterior motives Loss of interest and momentum with passage of time, and more particularly, after the transfer of the officer on whose individual initiative such

SPECIAL REPORT schemes are often started As I told my nephew, there is no simple solution or answer to his query.

Besides the deficiencies —operational and attitudinal — in police functioning itself, there are several other factors also which distance the common man from the police--not being the ‘servant of law’ under our system, its subservience to political and bureaucratic control and interference, the historic background of Indian police, the very nature — negative-particularly of its enforcement duties, some provisions in the law which themselves are based on lack of trust in the police, manner of functioning (nonfunctioning) of the criminal justice system etc.

While more intensive and sustained efforts will need to be made with regard to external factors enumerated above, the basic requirement for the police to achieve public acceptance and earn the confidence of the common man would be to put its own house in order. National Police Commission had analysed police partiality, corruption, and failure to register cognizable offences as some of the most important factors for the unsatisfactory police-public relations. These evils in police functioning will need to be targeted vigorously and unsparingly.

The trust of the ‘common man’ would be truly won the day he, when in distress or need of bona fide police help, can walk into a police station with the confidence of being treated in a civil manner with empathy and getting prompt and fair response

A police team sensitising vendors near Charminar to be vigilant

without having to take recourse to any ‘approach’ or corrupt practice, irrespective of his own economic or social status or that of the aggressor/offender. Till then, no number of ‘community policing’ measures, under whatever name or guise, would be of much help. Bringing this ethos to the police would need determined and unrelenting efforts on the part of police leadership — through training and sensitization inputs, constant advising and cajoling, inspiring by example, unsparing action against those not responding to these efforts and operationalising and enforcing accountability on the supervisory chain.

As brought out by National Police Commission, the negative image of police is often more among those whose opinions were based on what they had heard than those who interacted with the police. The biggest contributor to this ‘hearsay’ negative image is the media,

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both print and electronic (including the increasing number of soaps and talk-shows on the small screen), which usually gives much larger space to police failures, functional as well as behavioural, than its achievements or constraints and limitations under which it has to function. While any real image change has necessarily to be based on better professional performance and improvement in behavioural aspect of police functioning, steps for better sensitization of the media would also be imperative.

Besides accessibility and transparency in dealing with them, continuous interaction, including at higher editorial levels, for a balanced projection of police functioning and clarifying the correct facts, in case of any instances of serious or biased reporting, should be of help in this regard.

(The author is Retired IPS Officer who was Associated with Indian Intelligence for Long)

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hree officials posted to work in the education department in Hyderabad district are filling their own pockets with corrupt practices and pushing the lives of lakhs of school going children into danger.

Entrusted with the role of inspecting the schools, recommending and granting fresh recognition and renewals to the schools, these officials have either facilitated or granted in their respective levels recognition for new schools and renewing from time to time the permissions given to the schools though the managements of the schools have not furnished mandatory documents.

The managements of the schools are bound to furnish No Objection Certificates (NOC) issued by the Traffic Police, Fire Services and certificates such as Structural Soundness and Sanitary certificates issued by the competent government authorities for getting permission to run a school.

However, taking advantage of the corruption by the officials, managements of the schools are running the schools in such buildings which pose serious threat to the lives of the children. Further, classes are run in tight compartments which hamper the growth of the children both physically and psychologically and which are against the provisions of the Right to Education Act.

This blatant violation has been established in the orders passed by the State Information Commissioner, Mr. Syed Imtiyaz Ahmed, recently while disposing certain appeals and complaints filed under Right to Information Act.

The News will bring out the shocking facts in detail in the forthcoming issues.

Read the facts and then lodge complaints against the corrupt officials before the authorities, launch online anti-corruption campaign and help us bring the culprits to book.

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NTPC thermal project for Telangana gains pace

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he work on the 4,000 MW dedicated power project for Telangana being set up by the National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) at Ramagundam in Karimnagar district has gained momentum with tying up of 4.73 TMC ft water per annum from Sripada Yellampally project.

The national power giant has commenced work on the 2 x 800 MW first-stage of the project by calling tenders for supply of material.

It has secured environmental clearance from the ministry of environment and

forests (MoEF) for the project.

The project is coming up in the land bank already available with the NTPC at Ramagundam, where it already has a 2,600 MW interState generating station (ISGS).

The Telangana government has issued orders allocating 2.73 TMC ft of water per annum from Sripada Yellampally project for the 3 x 800 MW second-stage of the thermal power project.

The power project is envisaged to make dedicated supply of energy to Telangana, as promised in the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act (APRA).

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throughout the year from Sripada Yellampally project to the 2 x 800 MW stage-one of the project in March this year.

Another request was made by NTPC to the state government in August this year to allocate an additional 90 cusecs (2.73 TMC ft) of water from Yellampally for the 3 x 800 MW second-stage of the proposed power project.

Meanwhile, the Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd (BHEL), which is executing the thermal power plant has also called tenders for supply of material for the project. The land levelling work at the project site in Dameracherla mandal in Nalgonda district is already in progress.

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Modi lays foundation stone for AP’s capital city

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rime Minister Narendra Modi laid foundation stone for the Greenfield capital – Amaravati city - of Andhra Pradesh on October 22.

Addressing the huge gathering, Modi said, “Delhi will be working with AP at every step to make sure the growth of capital and state takes place properly.

Our government will see that AP becomes human resources capital. Our government has set up 11 national level institutions in the direction of improving human resources in AP.’’ He promised support for the development of new state as promised in the AP Reorganisation Act which includes special assistance. He also added that both the Telugu-states - AP and Telangana - should stem out differences and inch towards development of both states and country.

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strategically placed between Guntur and Vijayawada.

It is located about 40 kms from Vijayawada which is the commercial hub of the state.

The greenfield capital region is expected to cater to a population of about 14 million by 2050. In the next one decade, the new capital is expected to host over four million population and 1.8 million jobs. It is expected to become a smart, green city on about 54,000 acres of 217.23 sqkm of land assembled, which is also a first time in the country such a large extent of land is pooled in a span of 60 days.

Union ministers M Venkaiah Naidu, Ashok Gajapathi Raju and Nirmala Sitaraman, AP and Telangana Governor ESL Narasimhan and Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao were among those present on the occasion. The Singapore government has prepared the master plans for the three-layered capital – seed capital, capital city and capital region.

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Huge response to andhra Pradesh capital project The state government’s initiative to involve people in building the new capital Amaravati by donating e-bricks has received good response so far from across the world.

Within three days of the ‘Amaravati ebrick’ being launched, nearly 17 lakhs e-bricks were donated.

Each e-brick costs Rs 10 and many Andhrites

including some NRIs have individually donated more than 10,000 bricks each.

State chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu had appealed to people, especially all Andhrites settled across the world, to contribute Rs 10 for each brick that will be used in the construction of the capital, while launching the ‘Amaravati ebrick’ programme on October 15 as part of ‘My Brick-My Amaravati’ initiative.

This will help the cash strapped state. He called Amaravati a real people’s capital. Naidu aspires to build Amaravati as world's best capital. Calling Amaravati as a people's capital, government plans maximum involvement of the people in building it.

The link to pay online for the ebricks is provided on the official website Amaravati.gov.in.

Once the payment is completed, a receipt in the form of a certificate bearing the CM’s signature is sent to the donor. All the 16,000 farmers who gave up their land for the building of the new capital are being personally invited by TDP leaders who are visiting their houses and hand over the invitation cards along with a dhoti and saree.

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BHEL pays dividend of ` 284 cr

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harat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL) has paid a final equity dividend of 31 percent for the financial year 2014-15.

In value terms, the total dividend paid for the financial year 2014-15 amounts to Rs 284 crore, which is 58 percent of the paid-up capital (including an interim dividend of 27 percent).

With this, the company has maintained its impeccable track record of rewarding investors by paying dividends uninterruptedly since 1976-77, a release said.

A cheque of Rs 95.7 crore towards the final dividend for the year 2014-15 on the equity (63.06%) held by the government was presented in New Delhi to Anant Geete, minister for heavy industries and Public Enterprises by B Prasada Rao, chairman and managing director, BHEL, in the presence of Dr R S Katoch, Secretary, Department of Heavy Industry.

Directors on the board of BHEL as well as other

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senior officials of the ministry of heavy industries & public enterprises and BHEL were also present on the occasion.

Meanwhile, BHEL secured orders worth Rs 30,814 crore this year, an increase of 10 percent over the previous year, in intensely competitive domestic and overseas markets. Despite severe market shrinkage and stiff competition in the power sector, BHEL maintained its leadership position with a market share of 72 percent for the second consecutive year.

By expanding its offerings, the company secured 89 percent of its total orders in the power sector on EPC (Engineering, Procurement & Construction) basis. At the end of the year, total orders in hand for execution in 2015-16 and beyond, stand at Rs.1,01,018 crore.

In a constrained business environment, the company demonstrated tremendous resilience and achieved a Turnover of Rs 30,947 Crore and a Net profit of Rs.1,419 crore during 2014-15, the release said.

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Krishnapatnam Port bestowed with Golden Peacock Award

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rishnapatnam Port , recognized as one of India's largest ports and ranked amongst world's finest ports connecting the eastern and western parts of the world, has been bestowed with the Golden Peacock Environment Management Award.

The prestigious award, in recognition of Krishnapatnam Port's initiatives and achievements in the field of environment, was presented by the Union Minister of State for Environment Prakash Javadekar to C Sasidhar, Managing Director - Krishnapatnam Port at the 17th World Congress on Environment Management & Presentation of Golden Peacock Awards function held in New Delhi.

The Golden Peacock Awards, instituted by the Institute of Directors, are presented annually under various categories.

Environment protection is at the heart of Krishnapatnam Port's

corporate governance and philosophy. Some of the green initiatives taken by the port include - plantation of over 20 lakhs trees within the port and more than 50,000 trees in the surrounding villages, installation of solar lights in the port and solar water heaters in the employee colony, establishing gas connections for villagers so as to discourage them from cutting of mangroves, adoption of Nellore town traffic

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islands and public buildings for maintaining greenery around the areas etc.

The port has adopted Environment Health and Security program that encourages continuous improvement in environment protection and includes - waste management, pollution control, resource conservation, use of renewable resources etc.

Managing Director, Sasidhar said, "We are honoured to receive this prestigious award. We strongly believe that the progress and welfare of society is not merely the responsibility of governments alone rather every organisation should contribute and be part of social welfare. We have created a socio-economic atmosphere in Krishnapatnam that immensely benefited the surrounding inhabitants fostering sustainable growth."

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Scientists working to develop a malaria vaccine discover cancer drug

In the lab, the team, working with colleagues at the University of British Columbia in Canada, have created a protein that the malaria parasite uses to adhere to the placenta, and they've added a toxin

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team of Danish and Canadian scientists stumbled upon a new cancer drug while hunting for a weapon to fight malaria in pregnant women. Their study revealed that armed malaria proteins can kill cancer.

Raising hopes of a genuine medical treatment for the disease, the researchers say they hope to begin human trials within the next four years.

Malaria expert, Professor Ali Salanti from the University of Copenhagen, revealed that the carbohydrate that the malaria parasite attaches itself

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to in the placenta of pregnant women, is identical to a carbohydrate found in cancer cells.

In the laboratory, his team has created a protein that the malaria parasite uses to adhere to the placenta and they have added a toxin. This combination of malaria protein and toxin seeks out the cancer cells, before being absorbed by the diseased cells. The toxin is then released inside, triggering a process which kills the cancer cells.

Professor Salanti, working in collaboration with cancer researcher Mads Daugaard from the University of Columbia, has observed the process in cell cultures and in mice with cancer.

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SCIENCE NEWS Professor Salanti said: “For decades, scientists have been searching for similarities between the growth of a placenta and a tumour. The placenta is an organ, which within a few months grows from only a few cells into an organ weighing approximately two pounds, and it provides the embryo with oxygen and nourishment in a relatively foreign environment. In a manner of speaking, tumours do much the same. They grow aggressively in a relatively foreign environment.”

Professor Salanti and his team are now testing a vaccine against malaria in humans.

It was in connection with the development of this new drug, that he made the discovery that the carbohydrate in the placenta was also present in cancer tumors.

Upon making the discovery, Professor Salanti immediately contacted his former student, and now cancer researcher Dr Daugaard, who is head of the Laboratory of Molecular Pathology at the Vancover Prostate Cancer at UBC. Working together, the two groups of scientists have generated findings, which they hope will provide the basis for a drug to fight cancer.

Professor Salanti said: “We examined the carbohydrate's function. In the placenta, it helps ensure fast growth. Our experiments showed that it was the same in cancer tumours. We combined the malaria parasite with cancer cells and the parasite reacted to the cancer cells as if they were a placenta and attached itself.”

The two groups of researchers have tested thousands of samples from brain tumours to leukaemias and a general picture has emerged. Their findings indicate that the malaria protein is able to attack more than 90 per cent of all human tumors.

With non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, the treated mice's tumors were about a quarter the size of the tumors in a control group. With prostate cancer, the tumors disappeared in two of the six treated mice a month after receiving the first dose. With metastatic bone cancer, five out of six of the treated mice were alive after almost eight weeks, compared to no mice in the control group.

Dr Duagaard said: “We have separated the malaria protein, which attaches itself to the carbohydrate and then added a toxin. By conducting

tests on mice, we have been able to show that the combination of protein and toxin kill the cancer cells.”

Dr Thomas Mandel Clausen, a PhD student involved with the project for the last two years, added: “It appears that the malaria protein attaches itself to the tumor without any significant attachment to other tissue. And the mice that were given doses of protein and toxin showed far higher survival rates than the untreated mice. We have seen that three doses can arrest growth in a tumor and even make it shrink.”

Ironically, the only drawback appears to be the fact the treatment would not be available for pregnant women. Professor Salanti said: “Expressed in popular terms, the toxin will believe that the placenta is a tumor and kill it in exactly the same way it will believe that the tumor is a placenta.”

In collaboration with the scientists behind the discovery, the University of Copenhagen has created a biotech company, VAR2pharmaceuticals to drive the clinical development forward.

Professor Salanti, Dr Daugaard and their teams are now working towards being able to conduct tests on humans.

“The earliest possible test scenario is in four years time,” Professor Salanti revealed.

He added: “The biggest questions are whether it will work in the human body, and if the human body can tolerate the doses needed without developing side effects. But we are optimistic because the protein appears to only attach itself to a carbohydrate that is only found in the placenta and in cancer tumours in humans.”

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tamso maa jyotirgamaya

an there be light in a dark room? Or if there is light, can the room be dark? Think about it. There can be no light if there is darkness, there can be no darkness if there is light. You have to choose - darkness or light.

Deepawali is the darkest night of the year, the night of kartik amavasya. It is the night when the dark forces are at their peak, the night which is ideal for black magic and occult practices, also a perfect occasion to veil oneself in the darkness of alcohol and gambling…if darkness is what you choose.

However, the darkest hour also holds within it the promise of a new dawn…The night ofDiwali is also the night when it is easiest to access the power of light - the residents of Ayodhya chose light. A single ray of light is enough to dispel darkness and Ayodhyavasis lit each and every corner because that was the intensity with which they wanted light. And

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so, Ayodhya was blessed with the homecoming of Ram, Sita and Lakshman.

The essence of Diwali lies in the shloka, ‘tamso maa jyotir gamaya’, that is, take me from darkness to light, light here referring to the light of internal gyan – the glow of which attracts the devi (Lakshmi) home. It is a night not to ask for more and more wealth, but the night to request the Goddesss to give you wealth but also detach you from it because all that is physical is nashvar (temporary)…it will go and when it does, it will give you immense pain.

Starting from the 13th day of krshna paksh of the month of ashwin till the 2nd day of shukl paksh of month of kartik, the energy of various nakshatras is focussed on earth and on the night of kartik amavasya, that is Diwali, the energy patterns are especially conducive for the manifestation of gods in general, and Goddess Lakshmi in particular.

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SPIRITUAL NEWS

The interesting thing about Goddess Lakshmi is that she cannot stay at one place of long. If one traces the life of Sita, this fact would be evident. She emerged from the earth, spent her childhood at Raja Janak's, to be married off in Ayodhya, to be exiled to the forests, to be abducted to Lanka and then be rescued and returned to Ayodhya only to leave for Rishi Valmiki’s Ashram and finally merge back into the earth. Neither Janak, nor Ram, or Ravan or even Luv and Kusha, could keep her for long…such is the swaroop and shakti of Goddess Lakshmi. It is foolish to even think that you can hold on to her and the wealth and physical riches that she brings with her...all of it is bound to leave. So instead of waiting for Goddess Lakshmi to come to your house and shower wealth and physical pleasures upon you, this Diwali try something different. Ask, but also give.

Have fun, but also be prepared by asking for detachment from the physical.

The physical is governed by the energy world and each one of us has the potential to access these

energies and create all that is physical. Sanatan Kriya details the shodakshri mantra, ‘ka ee ai la hreem ha sa ka ha la hreem sa ka la hreem’, which when chanted along with lighting a lamp of cow ghee in front of the devi, bestows one with physical wealth as well as gives the route to exit maya. However for any mantra to have desired effects, it is important to receive it from your Guru, who is siddha in the mantra and hence has the capacity to transfer it to you.

If one looks at his/her life he/she will realise that there is pain in every aspect of pleasure - the pain of loosing that pleasure. This is a trait of Lakshmi (maya), yet we run after that which is temporary and is sure to leave us....all in the hope that it would never leave us. We should not forget that the Goddess Lakshmi rides on an owl (ullu)...

Tamso ma jyotirgamaya....is the only hope and the only pleasure, rest all is pain. May you all realise the full potential of the shakti on this Diwali...blessings.

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African Nation issues DURGA STAMP

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eflecting an international interest in the Indian festival of Navratri and Durga Puja, an African island nation issued a special stamp on Goddess Durga.

Adorned with special features like velvet effect and Swarovski element, the limited edition collectors' stamp was launched by Sao Tome and Principe, an African

Island country near the Equator, said numismatist Alok Goyal who has the sole selling rights for the

stamps.

The stamp, having a face value of 86,000 Dobra, currency unit of the Portuguese-speaking country, shows a picture of 'Sherawali Maa' sitting atop a tiger.

Only 1500 pieces of this stamp have been issued internationally of which 1000 will be available for the Indian market and rest will be used by the issuing country, Goyal said.

Ex-servicemen seek OROP notification by Diwali

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mid speculation that the NDA government will issue notification on ‘One Rank One Pension’ (OROP) as a Diwali gift but may postpone its implementation to next fiscal due to weak finances, the veterans of armed forces continue their protests pressing for their demand.

The hunger strike by veterans at Jantar Mantar reached 137th day on October 30. The protesting exservicemen had recently sent a letter signed in blood to Prime Minister Narendra Modi demanding early implementation of OROP scheme.

The veterans said in the letter that the announcement made by Defence Minister Manohar

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Parrikar on September 5 regarding the implementation of OROP had seven serious shortcomings.

If implemented without the removal of the shortcomings, it will kill the definition of OROP, the letter claimed. The letter accused Parrikar of changing the goalpost every now and then. The protesting veterans asked the Prime Minister to issue notification to implement OROP scheme at the earliest.

Air veteran V Govinda Raju wished success for the ex-servicemen so that even serving personnel would happily think of retirement life and protect the country in all respects while in service.

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